On Wed Sep-26-2018 18:18, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:   
      
   >  MP> Of course, then again, the best version of The Maltese Falcon was   
   >  MP> the second or third attempt at it.  So, I am OK with remaking a   
   >  MP> movie that wasn't so good to begin with.  :)   
      
   > The 3rd one with "Bogey" is the one I like.  That part (the 3rd film) was   
   > originally offered to George Raft, who turned it down.   
      
    MP> That is the one.  I am not a big fan of Raft.  On the other hand, I   
    MP> like some Bogart movies that he did not even like playing in.   
      
   Too numerous to mention of "Bogey's" films, here are three of my favorites:   
      
   Dark Passage   
   Action in the North Atlantic   
   To Have and Have Not   
      
    MP> I have read the book and that adaptation does not differ too much   
    MP> from it. That was John Huston's first big movie, but you'd never   
    MP> know it just by watching it.   
      
   I usually find the movie better than the book.  Rarely is it the other way   
   around.  Case in point is James Lee Burke's Heaven's Prisoners.  I really   
   liked the movie and loathed the book because of Burke's fondness for   
   describing the flora and the fawna, which put me in a state of unconsciousness.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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